Having said that, I would actually be keen for something similar that is both open-source and totally local so that I could use the output as AI fodder (for a local inference model of course).
I have a terrible memory so a totally local ai that knows everything I do would actually be useful.
If the system worked fully locally, didn't come from Apple/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/etc., and had decent data isolation, I would probably turn it on.
Unfortunately I find that getting basic OCR to work reliably on Linux is a challenge in itself compared to Windows' APIs and quality of OCR results, so I doubt an honest, well-intentioned implementation will make it to Linux.
When Recall was announced, I was in minority who thought it was super cool technology.
The technology can be cool while still be a horrific idea because of the implementation and privacy implications.
grim - | tee ~/.recall/$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S").png | tesseract stdin stdout 2>/dev/null >~/.recall/$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S").log
Did you actually look at it? Or just look at it? Because it is actually open-source and totally local.
# ... nonsense
while true; do
grim - | tee ~/.recall/$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S").png | tesseract stdin stdout 2>/dev/null >~/.recall/$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S").log
# ... other nonsense
done
I think all the nonsense/emojis are supposed to be funny, but that actually does the thing. Replace "tesseract" with whatever local AI you want; replace grim with some other screenshotting tool if you like.I've done something like this for over a decade (although I have a diff that deletes duplicate frames) and I like to partition by date (do that "T" becomes a "/") because that makes other things easier, but my script isn't much more complicated than that.
" Stores all you sensitive data "
That's a grammar error I don't expect an LLM to make?
It's not impossible that an AI was asked to sprinkle in a few typos for effect, but perhaps it really is just written by a person who really loves emojis.
Here it is [unaffiliated, untested by me, unvetted]: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall
https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux/blob/e16382f0...
Tired of having to read release notes carefully and make sure I've done just the right things to stop it doing things I never asked it to do.
Good job MS, you lost a customer who's never likely to come back.
Been running windows/linux alongside each other since the late 90's and outside of gaming my computing life is linux (even my TV is connected to a fedora box) so not a hard switch.
This satire is amusing. Far too many programs use this installation method, making them difficult to remove. Seeing this is an immediate deterrent to installation.
anticensor•2h ago